Evacuation Planning In Natural Disaster Using Multi Objective Optimization Approach: The Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh

Introduction The Rohingya refugee is an alarming humanitarian crisis in the current world community. Majority of these refugees are living in Kutupalong-Balukhali, Cox’s Bazar under high congestion and annual disasters (i.e. landslide, cyclones, flood) have put their life in great risk. From this perspective, the study aims on proposing location-allocation based evacuation plan for the Rohingya camp using three different multi objective optimization techniques namely AMOSA [1], NSGA-II [2] and NMGA [2]. GIS is also integrated with the optimization techniques. We selected Camp 8E of the Kutupalong-Balukhali Expansion Site as our case study area.